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Elizabeth Pierce
moving mountains.
they grow; they fade.
rising and falling
like coils of a sea serpent.
the face of a baboon appears _
there! an elephant -
both swallowed by the undertow.
'gator dives down,
as dragon climbs aloft.
a cannon fires,
the ball races barely ahead of the gun.
soon hippo, then rhino, chases cannonball.
images fade.
darkness closes like a faint,
once again on moving mountains.
Mollie M. King
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